Memories Menu Life in Hopedale, by or about:
The Arnold Family - Written in 1953. Dave Atkinson - Growing up in Spindleville. Leonard Baird - The Brae Burn, Drapers, Spartanburg, Greensboro, etc. Joseph Bancroft - An account of his life by his daughter, Lilla Bancroft Pratt. Sylvia Bancroft - Also by Lilla Bancroft Pratt. Eva (Bresciani) Barsanti Working at the Brae Burn Inn and other Hopedale memories. John P. Benda - Eulogy.
Byrne Family Farm- A small dairy farm in the 1940s - Hartford Avenue Kleber Campbell - Country doctor John Cembruch - Growing up in the Seven Sisters in the 30s and 40s, working at Drapers, the great Roosevelt prank, dealing with "the man," the union, and much more. Cembruch, Part 2 Part 3 Hester Chilson Hopedale resident from 1920 until her death in 2005 at the age of 100. John Chute - White City John Coniaris, M.D. - Obituary
Mike Cyr - Working in textile mills. Virginia Cyr Hopedale reporter for the Milford News. George Daniels - Scoutmaster in the 1960s. Mort Dennett Town clerk for many years. Charles Dillon, Jr. Drowned in Spindleville Pond, 1944. Freddie Evers - Snow plowing in the old days. Carol Strobeck Fannelli and Priscilla Knight Elliott - Hopedale in the 1950s Frederick FitzGerald Draper research head killed in plane crash, 1960 Dana Francis - Aerosmith and "pre-Aerosmith." Thomas Gaffney - Hopedale and Drapers back to the 1870s. Robert "Zeke" Hammond - Third-generation Hopedale resident - Depression memories. Heman Hersey One of the last Hopedale resident to have smallpox. Art Holmes - Hopedale in the 40s. Bob Holmes - Hopedale in the 40s. Dr. Verner Johnson Office at Adin Street home in the 1950s. Dennis Lamothe - Obituary William Lapworth - Hopedale Elastic Fabric Company. Tom Lipsky - Parklands memories. Fred Loeper - Memories of Hopedale in the 1960s. Dan Malloy - Memories of the 1940s and 1950s. Ed Malloy - Henry Patricks, working in Milford, etc. Tom Malloy - Hopedale police chief from 1943 to 1963 Hermina Marcus - White City, Drapers, the war years, softball, etc. Al Marzetta - The Maple Street neighborhood in the 1940s and 1950s. Don McGrath - The Oak Street. Freedom Street neighborhood; horse-drawn milk wagons. Philip and Kenneth Melin - Died in Hopedale Airport plane crash, 1972. Charles Merrill - Hopedale in 1910. The Midgley family - Coming to America from Keighley, Yorkshire. Dick Moore - An address to the Union Church Men's Brotherhood, 1986
Arnold Nealley - Photograper, hunter and fisherman. Dana Newcombe - Aerosmith, the Hopedale Airport crash, and more. Eugene Newhall - White Mountain vacation, 1910 Elizabeth Noyes - Born in Hopedale in 1890. Robert S. Phillips - Obituary Frances Rae - Spindleville Roy Rehbein - Also, growing up in Hopedale ... .. and Roy's "good night for a swim" story. James Roberts - Diary entries from 1946. Charles Roper - Inventor. Sylvester Roper - Motorcycle inventor - Hopedale resident??? Kenneth Sanderson Inventor at Drapers and at home. Mary Jean Newhall Seaburg Our Gang circuses and more. Roberta Simmons - Spindleville. Claude Snider - Draper executive Anna Thwing Spaulding - Christmas in Hopedale. Dot Stanas Hopedale in the 30s and 40s. John Stanas Champion swimmer Leola Stearns - Henry Patrick's Store Robert Stewart - Obituary Reggie Sweet - The Westcott Mill Gilbert Thompson - A founder of the National Geographic Society. and fingerprinting pioneer. Muriel (Henry) Tinkham - The Henry family farm on Dutcher Street. Warfield family genealogy Bill Wright - Memories of Joe Perry and the early days of Aerosmth, etc., and links to more of Bill's memories. World War II - the war years in Hopedale - Memories of Dot Stanas, Muriel (Henry) Tinkham, Liz (Gaskill) Demars, Perry and Shirley MacNevin, Phil Roberts, Dave Atkinson, and Dan Malloy. |